Four exhibition projects: the Art & Plastics area transforms Pavilion 24 into a space for dialogue between creativity, material, and technology

Milan, 9 June 2026 – At Plast 2026 (9–12 June, Fiera Milano Rho), plastics are not merely industrial technology: they are also an expressive medium, a tool for contemporary storytelling, and a meeting point between art, sustainability, and innovation. The Art & Plastics area, housed in Pavilion 24, presents four exhibition projects that explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of polymeric materials.

Lady Be – Art, Recycling and Technology Pad. 24, A141/B143

Lady Be presents an exhibition project that brings together contemporary art, sustainability, and technological innovation. On display are 24 original works created from recycled plastic and recovered materials, in a variety of formats, selected as a synthesis of the artist’s research into the transformation of waste into value.

The stand also features two interactive installations: a social call-to-action, through which visitors can receive a signed Lady Be gift by sharing content from the works on their own channels, and a special AI experience that allows visitors to visualise their own portrait in “Lady Be style”, free of charge, directly at the fair.

Pina Inferrera / Plastica d’Artista – Light, Matter, Perception Pad. 24, A131/B138

Pina Inferrera’s research, developed from the 1980s to the present day, is grounded in the aesthetic and perceptual potential of synthetic materials, which transform through light into vibrant surfaces, transparencies, and refractions. At Plast 2026, this vision is enriched by a collaboration with Quadruslight, born from a desire to merge art, design, and technology: the works come alive with a diffused luminosity that amplifies the plastic material, creating immersive atmospheres suspended between present and future. Alongside luminous panels derived from her photographs, the artist also explores matter through sculpture, shaping its forms, softness, and expressive possibilities.

Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte – Polymers of Art: The Art Tables Pad. 24, B141/C148

The MAF – Museo Acqua Franca and the MAP Museo Arte Plastica of Castiglione Olona present Polimeri d’arte: Le Tavole d’Arte da mangiare, an exhibition project that reinterprets the historical format of the Art Tables, exploring the expressive potential of plastic materials through sculptures and installations.

Five artists, five visions: Carla Crosio reveals the plastic and chromatic force of everyday objects; Claudio Gasparini uses methacrylate as an optical protagonist that filters and multiplies colour in motion; Matteo Lombardi covers an apple in red paraffin wax – a thermoplastic destined to degrade over time – uncovering an internal structure of animal bones; Diego Pasqualin lays a funerary table with a tablecloth of bituminous membrane in dialogue with the transience of wood and rope; Annalisa Mitrano suspends a starry sky of soft methacrylate and expanded polyurethane forms, between transparencies and opaline visions.

The project also features topylabrys, an artist who for over fifty years has experimented with polymers as an expressive language: in collaboration with Slide, everyday industrial objects are transformed into convivial tables with resin inserts preserving fragments of food, sublimating function into artwork and material into narrative.

On 12 June, the interdisciplinary event Arte e Polimeri will take place, dedicated to the relationship between art, industry, and the transformation of matter. Artistic direction by Ornella Piluso, curated by Monica Scardecchia.

Tommy Bonicelli – Ectoplastic Aesthetics Pad. 24, A121/A127

With his “ectoplastic aesthetic”, Tommy Bonicelli transforms everyday objects and urban icons into contemporary relics – a journey in which plastics become a symbol of memory, consumption, and the transformation of reality.

PLAST

Spanning six halls, PLAST 2026 arrives at its twentieth edition with over 1,000 exhibiting companies, 45% of them international – a result that carries particular significance in a decidedly complex market environment.
Together with its satellite shows – Rubber, 3D Plast and PlastMat – Plast confirms its position as the most comprehensive European trade fair of the year for the plastics and rubber industry, where innovation, dialogue and business converge to drive the industry towards new horizons, with a particular focus on key themes such as sustainability, artificial intelligence and the digitalisation of production processes.